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Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

By: Jacob Rees-Mogg,Radomir Tylecote,Stephen Ashmead,Calvin Chan,Ben Clements,Luke McWatters,Daniel Pycock,Thomas Schaffner,Charles Shaw,Gintas Vilkelis,William Watts

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Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

By: Jacob Rees-Mogg,Radomir Tylecote,Stephen Ashmead,Calvin Chan,Ben Clements,Luke McWatters,Daniel Pycock,Thomas Schaffner,Charles Shaw,Gintas Vilkelis,William Watts

Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era – the UK’s housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on the planet, with London virtually the most expensive major city in the world for renting or buying a home. At the core of this is one of the most centralised planning systems in the democratic world – a system that plainly doesn’t work. A system that has resulted in too few houses, which are too small, which people do not like and which are in the wrong places, a system that stifles movement and breeds Nimbyism. The IEA’s 2018 Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize, with a first prize of £50,000, sought free-market solutions to this complex and divisive problem. Here, Breakthrough Prize judge Jacob Rees-Mogg and IEA Senior Research Analyst Radomir Tylecote critique a complex system of planning and taxation that has signally failed to provide homes, preserve an attractive environment and enhance our cities. They then draw from the winning entries to the Breakthrough Prize, and previous IEA research, to put forward a series of radical and innovative measures – from releasing vast swathes of government-owned land to relaxing the suffocating grip of the green belt. Together with cutting and devolving tax, and reforms to allow cities to both densify and beautify, this would create many more homes and help restore property-owning democracy in the UK.

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025536783X

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The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide

By: John Schreiner,Luke Whittall

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The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide

By: John Schreiner,Luke Whittall

The definitive guide to Interior BC wineries, covering the Okanagan, Similkameen, Thompson and Kootenays. With updated maps and travel tips, it’s your ultimate glove-box guide, now in a newly expanded and updated edition. For nearly fifteen years Okanagan Wine Tour Guide has been the definitive companion for travelling the winding roads of BC’s Interior wine region. In this, the 6th edition, John Schreiner and his new co-author—wine writer, podcaster, and instructor Luke Whittall—chart the latest developments at the oldest wineries and the very first vintages from the newest startups in a region that stretches along Okanagan Lake, west to the Similkameen, north to the Thompson, and east to the Kootenays. This edition includes 240 wineries (that’s over 40 openings in five years!), revised and updated maps, contact information, tasting room information, and recommendations. From pioneers like Quail’s Gate on Mount Boucherie to the newest arrivals like Cliff & Gorge in Lillooet, these stories are as varied as the personalities of the wines themselves—a few vines planted as a retirement project, a few acres purchased on a whim, or a gala grand opening underpinned by years of planning and consultation. What emerges across the guide is the sense of community and the room for wildly different philosophies on everything from growing to fermenting to naming. Whether you’re paging through the aisles of the local liquor store, sorting your Viogniers from your Syrahs, or relishing a family vineyard’s journey from its Quonset-hut years to international acclaim, John Schreiner’s Okanagan Wine Tour is the ultimate guide to and celebration of Interior BC wine.

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177151325X

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The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines: Volume 1

By: Luke Whittall

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The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines: Volume 1

By: Luke Whittall

A perfect pocket guide that collects 50 of the most seek-worthy wines in BC from the wine expert who’s tried them all. In this handy portable guide to the top 50 British Columbia wines under $50 a bottle, wine expert Luke Whittall abandons the usual language of tasting notes in favour of a more personalized, approachable style, focusing on experiences, good company, and where a wine might take your thoughts. As a wine industry professional, Whittall found himself inspired more by the way non-professionals talk about wine than the “hints of fresh cherries, dried herbs, and soupçons of eucalyptus” style often favoured in traditional wine writing. Sipster’s Pocket Guide describes the experiences bound up in the tasting of 50 of the most amazing wines this province has produced, including reds, whites, rosés, sparkling, and dessert wines. With its emphasis on affordability and personal experience, rather than vintner and vintage specifics, Whittall’s guide reads less like the average wine fare and more like tips from a funny, candid friend. Before you head to the liquor store to deliberate over your next sip, take a glance through Sipster’s.

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1771513616

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The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines: Volume 2

By: Luke Whittall

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The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines: Volume 2

By: Luke Whittall

The eagerly awaited second installment in the offbeat BC wine guide the Vancouver Sun calls “the perfect go-to.” Following on the popularity of Volume 1, which the Vancouver Sun called “the perfect go-to guide,” the second installment of The Sipster’s Pocket Guide brings the same offbeat, lateral thinking and experiential focus to a whole new batch of BC wines. Wine expert and educator Luke Whittall shares his love of and sense of humour about the industry as he presents his top 50 wines under $50 (including many under $30). With food and activity pairings that range from romantic to radical (berry-laced desserts and long-distance relationships, poached salmon and puns, hot dogs and off-grid living), and an index of attitudes that let you choose a wine based on your mood (be it drill sergeant or rancher, pastoral or paisley), the Sipster’s guides are anything but stuffy. Divided into chapters on sparkling, white, rosé, red, and dessert wines, the book finishes up with a beginner’s guide to grape varieties in BC and a primer on the grand cru designation and how it pertains to our province. Sipster’s Volume 2 is the perfect companion for that on-the-fly wine purchase and for those who want to dig a little deeper. Learn about classics like Pinot Grigio, how Chardonnay in BC almost went the way of Merlot post-Sideways, and how to not only find but also pronounce a great Siegerrebe.

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1771513950

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Stepping Out in Faith

How God's Plan for One Family Changed Thousands of LIves

By: Luke Everett

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Stepping Out in Faith

How God's Plan for One Family Changed Thousands of LIves

By: Luke Everett

This is the amazing story of Rancho Sordo Mudo, a free home and school for deaf children in Mexico. Founded in 1969 by Ed and Margaret Everett, the Ranch has challenged and changed thousands of lives--including the Everetts'! Through fire and restoration, triumph and devastation, the family has never lost faith in God's divine plan. As a result, their unwavering persistence and devotion transformed 500 acres of unoccupied land into a blessed ministry that has provided hope and a future for deaf children (and people of all ages--hopefully even you!) for nearly forty years.

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1498275397

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Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

By: Jacob Rees-Mogg,Radomir Tylecote,Stephen Ashmead,Calvin Chan,Ben Clements,Luke McWatters,Daniel Pycock,Thomas Schaffner,Charles Shaw,Gintas Vilkelis,William Watts

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Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

By: Jacob Rees-Mogg,Radomir Tylecote,Stephen Ashmead,Calvin Chan,Ben Clements,Luke McWatters,Daniel Pycock,Thomas Schaffner,Charles Shaw,Gintas Vilkelis,William Watts

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Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide

The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide

The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines: Volume 1

The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines: Volume 1

The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines: Volume 2

The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines: Volume 2

Stepping Out in Faith

Stepping Out in Faith

Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis

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